3.1 Apologies were received from Vaughan
Gething and Ken Skates due to their
appointments as Deputy Ministers in the Welsh Government and from
Elin Jones and Darren Millar. Leighton Andrews and David Rees
attended as substitutes.

3.2 Leighton Andrews declared, for the purpose
of item 4b, that he is an honorary professor at Cardiff School of
Journalism.

4.7 The Minister and Dr Hussey responded to
questions from members of the Committee.

4.8 Dr Hussey agreed to provide clarification
on the difference between the figures provided by the Welsh
Government and Public Health Wales in their written evidence on the
national catch-up campaign in 2005. Dr Hussey also agreed to
confirm whether the letter issued from the Welsh Government to
health boards in 2009 encouraging compliance with the Welsh Health Circular 2005 was
generic or geographically specific.